FUNERAL MARCH PRECEDES DEATH
AN EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.] Received this dav at 8.50 a.m, ST. PETERSBURG, March 18. There is an epidemic, ut neurasthenic suicides in this city. i Two sisters, Kollmaiin, aged 16 and 20 years respectively and a friend , Mdlb- Laurie/, heiress to £2,000,000 drank poison after playing Chapin's . Funeral March. ’They left letters stating that they were tired of life. Fifteen other suicides, mostly girls, were recorded yesterday and on an earlier day there were 29 including 16 women and three children !
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 March 1910, Page 3
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